Once again the Oaklands Club at Birmingham provided the venue for the Tottenham Regs 1/24th Race. An intersting 4 lane track with some even more interesting “wiggles”! The day comprised of 4 classes of racing being Hard Body Saloon, Lexan Saloon, lexan Formula One / Indy and Lexan Sports. Each class was judged for Concours with the number of allocated being in proportion to the class entry. Smallest class of the day was the 1st to be run, Hardbody Saloon, with the Concourse being taken by Chris Stemmen (top car, top photo). Race format to preserve these beasts was 4 heats, best run to count and a single lane final, lane choice by qualification order. Steve Francis proved the most conctant and quickest racer in this one, hottly persued by Ian Fisher, Chis Stemmen, Will Stemmen and Ralph Parker.
Lexan Saloon was next up with Mick Kerr & Will Stemmen taking concourse (photo below - Mick Kerr’s back row, bottom, Will Stemmen’s back row top - a return to the magic marker and hair spray colour scheme!) Raced to the same format as Hardbody, Paul Harwood’s Ralph Parker built Camaro did the business, followed by Sandy Parker, Mick Kerr, Will Stemmen, Andy Brown-Searle, Chris Stemmen, Steve Francis and Graeme Stephenson. Favoured body in this class seemed to be the JK Camaro 4” shell.

Formula One / Indy was the largest field of the day with 14 racers and a nice bunch of cars lined up for Concours, with winners being Ralph Parker, Eddie Grice and Mick Kerr. Once again the 4 heats, qualify on the best and single lane final format was used and by this time the racing at the top was getting fast a furious with a number of “coming togethers” in true open wheel fashion during the heats.

Once again, Paul Harwood took the race followed by Graeme Stephenson with a Dynamic car blagged from ABS, then Ian Fisher and Andy Brown-Searle making up the fastest 4.

For the Sports Class, the format changed to 1 minute qualifying all laps to count followed by a 4 segment, win from any final race.

The concourse field was wide ranging, with some “different” cars. Winners in concourse (picture left) - Andy Brown-Searle (centre), Mick Kerr (top) & Chris Stemmen (bottom) with his not so regularly seen Marcos Mantis.

In the race, once again Paul Harwood was very quick with his spring steel centred car, followed by rather more conventional, period cars driven by Graeme Stevenson, Chris Stemmen and Eddie Grice.

Thanks must go to the Oaklands club for hosting the event, Sandy Parker who, for the most part operated race control throughout the day and good natured as ever, bullied all the “guys” into shape.

AB Slotsport and SCD for supplying prizes.

And of course the racers for turning up and making the day real fun!